Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life, old mine workings, abandoned ghost towns, decaying farm buildings. He became a professional painter at 39 after giving up his job as Snr Instructor at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1977. Elected Royal Society of Watercolour Painters 1982, awarded Order of Australia 1987. Hard working romantic, melancholy.

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Tasmanian painter well known for portrait, natural history and landscape. Studied under Jack Carrington Smith and Dorothy Stoner and Royal Academy Schools, London. Awarded commission to interpret Tasmania’s islands through drawing and painting 1976, including Macquarie, Goose, Fisher and Albatross. This resulted in drawings, etchings and oil works over many years.

Born in Sydney in 1911, Max Dupain studied art in Sydney before working in a commercial photography studio. He opened his own studio in Sydney in 1934, and was holding solo exhibitions from 1930 in Australia and overseas. During World War II he was a camouflage officer in the RAAF, and later became a photographer with the Department of Information. He returned to his photographic career after the war, his focus spanning such fields as portraiture, landscape and architecture. This is one of 3 known Hobart images taken at the time, including the newly completed Wrest Point Casino.

Won NSW Travelling Scholarship and Studied Europe 1958-61, lived Florence 1961-68 returned to Sydney 1969. Energetic artist and teacher, has won many awards in drawing, print and painting, with recent retrospective held at Erwin Gallery, Sydney

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